An Irish perspective on education for all who value teaching
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Wednesday Apr 04, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme I speak to two keynote speakers from the 2018 annual conference of the Computer Education Society of Ireland, Elizabeth Oldham and Richard Millwood, both from Trinity College Dublin. They discuss the past, present and future of the organisation and among other topics Richard discusses how computational thinking relates to teaching the visual arts.
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Wednesday Mar 28, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
On this week's programme my guest is Joanna Norton, a lecturer at the University of the Arts in London. In the course of our interview she told me about the App she developed called Keywords Biology.
Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
Wednesday Mar 21, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney
This week I speak to the Chairperson of the Computer Education Society of Ireland (CESI), Adrienne Webb, about the new Leaving Certificate course in Computer Science and other matters.
During the interview we discuss how CESI has been working with various players, such as the NCCA and the PDST, to facilitate the smooth introduction of the syllabus; Adrienne tells us about how she became interested in technology; she discusses resources for teaching computer science; and she describes her approach to working with technology in school.
Wednesday Mar 14, 2018
Wednesday Mar 14, 2018
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to lecturer in mathematics and programming at LIT (Tipperary Campus), Pamela O'Brien. Among the topics we discuss are:
- Her workshop on “Breakoutedu”
- Her job at LIT – Tipperary Campus
- The ICT in Education Conference
- The difference between coding and computer science
- Transitions she made from working in insurance to lecturing and from mathematics to computer science
- How teachers can become more involved in coding
- Who inspires her
- Why she likes EDCHATIE
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Wednesday Nov 15, 2017
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I spoke to three people who presented workshops at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. They were Claire Dunne from the Marino Institute of Education, Damien Quinn from seomraranga.com and Anne Burke from Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Among the websites mentioned on the programme were:
Children's Literature Association of Ireland
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13586750-bully
Wednesday Oct 05, 2016
Wednesday Oct 05, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
This week's guest is Professor Jackie Marsh from the University of Sheffield's School of Education. I interviewed her when she was in Dublin as a keynote speaker at the 40th annual conference of the Literacy Association of Ireland. In the course of the interview Jackie Marsh referred to some online resources and books including:
National Literacy Trust
Common Sense Media
Technology and Play
Aurasma
Anne Hass Dyson
The Meaning Makers by Gordon Wells
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Wednesday May 11, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme my guest is Professor Leigh Graves Wolf who is the assistant director of the Hub for Innovation in Learning and Technology at Michigan State University. She was in Ireland to deliver a keynote address at the 2016 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland (CESI) in February last.
Among the sites mentioned on the programme are make.msu.edu and edutech.msu.edu.
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Wednesday May 04, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Dr. Conor Galvin from the School of Education in University College Dublin. I met him at the annual Computers in Education Society of Ireland, CESI conference 2016, when he spoke about his presentation and about the role of technology in education more generally.
Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
Wednesday Mar 23, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme I speak to Derek Breen, author of Scratch for Kids and an ambassador for Code Week. He was a keynote speaker at the 2016 conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland. He spoke a lot about the computer programming language Scratch and mentioned Trinity's Bridge 21 initiative.
Wednesday Mar 16, 2016
Wednesday Mar 16, 2016
Presented and produced by Seán Delaney.
On this week's programme Ciara Brennan, a teacher in St. Peter's Primary School in Bray and a part-time lecturer in Marino Institute of Education, talks about her use of technology for assessment in her class and to motivate her pupils. She presented a workshop with Mary Jo Bell at the 2016 annual conference of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland.
Among the websites mentioned by Ciara were the following:
Kahoot (for students)
Kahoot (for teachers)
Socrative
Padlet
Animoto
Bett